THE N W YORKER As an antIdote, I went to hear Ted- dy 'Vilson's last et at the Cookery, whLre he opened a week ago and where he win be until earl) in April. \VIlson, who wil] be sixty this year, is a marvel, and we must not take hIm for granted. There are certain songs he has come to } " S " h own over t 1e years- tompIn at t e Savoy," "Love for Sale," "I Only Have Eyes for You," "Sweet Lor- raine," "Tea for Two"-and he played them tonight with a stunning ease and grd.ce. The famous style was in place-the feather) ctrpeggios, the easy, floating left hand, the impeccable rhyth- mic sense, the Intense clusters of notes that belie the cool mask he wears when he plays. If Tatum and Monk ïnd HInes sometImes suggest painters, \Vilson suggests a superb watercolorist, whose textures and colors and drafts- manship are an unfailing delight. F EBRUARY 23RD: The nostctlgia for times that fe\\' living people remem- ber is a strange form of dejà vu: the nostalgia-ridden somehow become con- vinced that they have kno'wn the ir- revocably vanished smells and textures and sights they hanker after and that, with sufficient longing, these trappings will magically crystallize. Such, at least, must be one reason-it is to be hoped sheer musical interest is anoth- er-that ragtime, dead and buried these fifty years, appears on the verge of a renaIssance. In the past year, the NeV\.T York Public Library has published Scott Joplin's complete works, and not long ago a Joplin festival, capped by the première of his fifty-year-old opera, ((T reemonisha," was given in A tlan ta. A plethora of recordings devoted to Joplin and his two great peers, James Scott and Joseph Lamb, have also been issued, and tonight the \Vhitney Mu- seum put on a concert called "Rag- time and All That Jazz." Ragtime flourished during the first twenty years of the century, but, as the first mechanically fostered music (piano rolls, recordIngs, sheet music), it was done in bv overexposure and the failure of the music itself to develop. It was a composed, syncopated piano mu- sic characterized by an oompah left hand, a lively, complex, filigreed right hand, a multi-thematic structure, and striking melodies. It was eventual- ly transformed, through improvisation, in to a form of jazz known as stride piano by James P. Johnson, Fats 'Val- ler, and Willie the Lion Smith. At its height, ragtime was a delicate, lyrical, 10COCO music; it seemed to come from nowhere-its origins are said to lie in the music that accompanIed various ::-::., j',"", , 103 ^^ .:::.... '- >- , ..::f \ " , . " '" .... Until you've lounged in the cocktail lounge of the Benihana Palace, you haven't really lounged at all. 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